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Oct 11, 2024 • 28min

George Lipsitz on the Impacts of Housing Discrimination

A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.
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Oct 4, 2024 • 28min

Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate, Insha Rahman on Immigration Conversation

Why are events we pay insurance for a "crisis" for the industry we pay it to? The unceasing effects of climate disruption will only throw that question into more relief.
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Sep 27, 2024 • 28min

Mohamad Bazzi on Israeli Terror Attacks

As every day brings news of new carnage, US citizens have a duty not to look away, given our government’s critical role in arming Israel and ignoring its crimes.
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Sep 20, 2024 • 28min

Jen Senko on The Brainwashing of My Dad

Jen Senko’s film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.
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Sep 13, 2024 • 28min

Gregory Shupak on Palestinian Genocide, Robert Spitzer on Gun Rights and Rules

Why do the press corps need a constitutional amendment to protect their ability to speak if all they’re going to say is, “oh well”?
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Sep 6, 2024 • 28min

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy

A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.
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Aug 30, 2024 • 28min

Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger

Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it.
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Aug 23, 2024 • 28min

Steve Macek on Dark Money

How do we acknowledge the fact that many people’s opinions are shaped by messages that are created and paid for by folks who work hard to hide their identity and their interests?
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Aug 16, 2024 • 28min

Emily Sanders on Criminalizing Pipeline Protest, Victoria St. Martin on Suing Fossil Fuel Companies

The crickets you’re hearing about efforts to eviscerate the right to protest the impacts of climate disruption? That’s all intentional.
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Aug 9, 2024 • 28min

Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal

Does the company that "corners the market" do so because people simply prefer what they sell? The anti-monopoly ruling against Google challenges that idea of how things work.

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